Talking about her hit single Wrecking Ball (which is said to have been inspired by the deterioration of the couple’s relationship), Cyrus said, “it’s about finding yourself and sometimes you have to separate yourself from everyone. I just had to become this person who is sitting in this chair right now. If I didn’t I just felt like there was something that was going to explode and I had to set myself free.”

The pair met while filming the The Last Song in 2010 and started dating shortly after. They were engaged in 2012, but split in 2013 before Cyrus released her fourth album, Bangerz, a project she referred to as a “break up album”.

Before the split: Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus in 2012.Source:Getty Images

Cyrus also spoke about the criticism she has copped — often unfairly — for everything from her performance style to her outfits.

“That’s just what I like to wear,” Cyrus said.

“I never think about what someone is going to think. I’ve always been into fashion. I grew up around Dolly Parton who is all ... tits. And both my parents are covered in tattoos and are really cool.”

Referring to her 23rd tattoo which reads, ‘Love your brain’, Bath asked the former Disney star: “Does it ever bother you that drugs could hurt your brain?”

Cyrus responded: “Do you know what hurts your brain? Googling yourself. You know what hurts your brain? Instagram. You know what hurts your brain? Sitting there and reading the comments on Facebook. I have a 14-year-old sister and I go through her comments and people are calling her a slut and that’s a 14-year-old. So I think that’s hurting your brain.

“I put pictures of me smoking weed, I’m not going to lie, on my Instagram because I was brought up in the way that we never thought marijuana was bad.

“I don’t promote it in my songs or say it, it’s not like I’m sitting around telling a bunch of kids to do a bunch of drugs,” the singer, who has a social media following of more than 80 million, added.

Cyrus encouraged other women to “just be yourself”, saying that she sees herself as being a “strong female figure”. She spoke about that now infamous performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards with Robin Thicke, rejecting claims that she exploited women.

“No one talked about him or what he was doing, it was all my fault. It’s funny, I just never thought anything about it.”

Cyrus also pointed to the double standards between what’s considered acceptable for female performers compared to male artists. She pointed to Elvis Presley as the original twerker.

“Elvis, he wasn’t wearing the outfits I was wearing but he was coming out and he was doing like the OG twerking. Like, no one wants to admit that he was twerking, but he was,” Cyrus said.

“He was like sex. He was a symbol of sex but no one would have ever called Elvis a s*** because he wasn’t a girl.

“It’s that double standard and I think I’m doing something for the double standard.”

One year ago, Miley Cyrus put a wrecking ball through Hannah Montana with her jaw-dropping performance at the VMAs.Source:Channel 7